(Assign work shifts) (Prehistoricist)

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From: The Business of the City

Description summary:
This action's title and description likely vary based on the city's Style.

Style	Title	Description
School of Beatrice	Assign shifts in the hospices	The Manager's city is full of hospitals, and the city has the will to keep them staffed.
Remembered, Celestial, Auroral	Assign feeding shifts in the kennels	The Labyrinth of Tigers cannot boast such a rigorous feeding schedule.
Nocturnal	Assign lantern-bearers	The city is no longer strictly Liberationist, but it remains a bit dark, thanks to your double's Nocturnal inclinations. A bother, really.
Bazaarine	Assign oracle-givers	Furnace has dubiously concluded that a Bazaarine city needs enigmatic street-performers.
Mycologene Terpsichorean Heliconian Cartographical	FATE	FATE

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Game Instructions: If successful, this will reduce The City Waning.

Unlocked with Exploration of a Hinterland City, Hinterland City - Official Alignment 200 - 250

Locked with Leader of the Tracklayers 2

Challenge information

Broad, Persuasive 180

• 123 - very chancy (41%)
• 153 - chancy (51%)
• 183 - modest (61%)
• 213 - very modest (71%)
• 244 - low-risk (81%)
• 273 - straightforward (91%)
• 300 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, A Player of Chess 5 (50% base)

• 1 and below - almost impossible (10%)
• 2 - high-risk (20%)
• 3 - high-risk (30%)
• 4 - tough (40%)
• 5 - very chancy (50%)
• 6 - chancy (60%)
• 7 - modest (70%)
• 8 - very modest (80%)
• 9 - low-risk (90%)
• 10 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

No good deed goes unpunished

You have chits representing the available work days from each eligible citizen, and a board with holes to drop them into. But it's not enough to allocate enough people to each task: [...]

Description summary:
The rest of the description likely varies based on the city's Style.

Style	Description
School of Beatrice	there are additional questions of ability and determination and empathetic manner. Bedside manner never mattered when all you were attending was a metal track. You get the notion Furnace misses those days.
Remembered, Celestial, Auroral	there are additional questions of ability and determination and courage. Helpfully, Furnace dots yellow paint on the chit of any citizen who has a fear of claws.
Nocturnal	there are additional questions of ability and determination and friendliness to lost members of the general public.
Bazaarine	You further rely on a set of dice and a deck of cards to decide [...] which Zee-island they should pretend to hail from. Furnace humours all this [...] But it [...] makes every other worker feel, if only briefly, that their efforts belong to an arcane and majestic plan.
Mycologene Terpsichorean Heliconian Cartographical	FATE

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• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  The City Waning is dropping… (-2 CP)
•  You've gained (220 + Efficiency) x Hinterland Prosperity

Failure

Distinct disapproval

Furnace, it seems, cannot entirely satisfy this population. "Where are the creatures!? Why do we still have work shifts at all?"

• Persuasive is increasing…
•  Habituated to the Hinterland is increasing… (+1 CP)
•  Tracklayers' Displeasure is increasing… (+2 CP)